Blog Post
Why small states matter in international politics: The case of Sri Lanka
September 3, 2015, Kadira Pethiyagoda
In the last few years, Sri Lanka began to feature as a country of strategic relevance to great powers, particularly China and the United States. Western policymakers should not take the island state for granted. The larger lesson of Colombo’s shift to the West is that strategic small states like Sri Lanka now have more options and can easily switch sponsors.